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This is one of many short video segments which will be added to the Digital Tipping Point (DTP) archive. In this segment, Margaret talks about two projects that KITE, Inc., had been supporting. The first is the Gitaru Water Selp Help Project in Kenya. The man running that project had been keeping written records of small donations, literally pennies, every month from the members of the village who benefitted from the project. When the number of families reached 8,000, the man became exhausted. With the computer that KITE provided, he was able to bring an additional 7,000 families into the project. The project let them drill holes to get good clean water, rather than have to drink bacteria-laden water out of a local river. They also used the water to grow food.

The other group was the Nigeria Medical Students' Association of Kalibar, a town in southeastern Nigeria. Prior to KITE's involvement, they had been experiencing a drop out rate of 87%, and only 4% of the students actually graduated. The reason for this failure was the lack of access to the medical journals they needed. With KITE's Linux computer, the group was able to download and print journals from the Internet. Then, the group used that one computer to do a fundraising drive, and they secured 10 other computers, and made a lab for the students to use for research. At the time of the interview, the organization was planning to become a hub for KITE, so that their success could be replicated in other NGOs.

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